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Risk Governance
Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World
Av Ortwin Renn
Häftad, 2008
694 kr
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'Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk analyst, every risk researcher must read this book - it is the demarcation point for all further advances in risk policy and risk research. Renn provides authoritative guidance on how to manage risks based on a definitive synthesis …
Feeling of Risk
New Perspectives on Risk Perception
Av Paul Slovic
Häftad, 2010
831 kr
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The Feeling of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, to describe the extension of risk perception research into the first decade of this new century. In this collection of important works, Paul Slovic explores the conception of 'risk as feelings' …
Risk, Media and Stigma
Understanding Public Challenges to Modern Science and Technology
Av Paul Slovic, James Flynn m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
825 kr
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The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of technologies and aversion to certain products and substances. Amplified by the pervasive power of the media, public concern about health and ecological risks can have enormous …
Risk and Uncertainty in a Post-Truth Society
Av Sander van der Linden, Ragnar E. Löfstedt
Inbunden, 2019
1002 kr
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This edited volume looks at whether it is possible to be more transparent about uncertainty in scientific evidence without undermining public understanding and trust. With contributions from leading experts in the field, this book explores the communication of risk and decision-making in an …
Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication
Av Ulrik Kihlbom, Mats G. Hansson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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This volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for policy decisions at clinical, research and societal levels. Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication examines the introduction of new types of health …
Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk
Imagining the Future
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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This book answers the need for a contextual, long-term and interpretative analysis of risk from original sources. Risk has historically been a way of imagining what could happen in the future based on expert theories and predictions. This book explores this notion of "managing the future" by …
Siting Noxious Facilities
Integrating Location Economics and Risk Analysis to Protect Environmental Health and Investments
Häftad, 2020
746 kr
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Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management facilities. It proposes a framework that integrates economic location analysis and risk analysis, emphasizing the reduction of uncertainty. This book begins by defining …
Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society
Examples from Emerging Technologies, Public Health and Environment
Häftad, 2020
716 kr
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Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers. Human beings have always had to deal with dangers, but contemporary societies conceptualise these dangers as risks, indicating that they are to some extent …
Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication
Av Ulrik Kihlbom, Mats G. Hansson m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
716 kr
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This volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for policy decisions at clinical, research and societal levels. Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication examines the introduction of new types of health …
Risk and Uncertainty in a Post-Truth Society
Av Sander van der Linden, Ragnar E. Löfstedt
Häftad, 2021
388 kr
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This edited volume looks at whether it is possible to be more transparent about uncertainty in scientific evidence without undermining public understanding and trust. With contributions from leading experts in the field, this book explores the communication of risk and decision-making in an …
Anthropology and Risk
Av Asa Boholm
Inbunden, 2015
2525 kr
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Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this book addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by culturally informed and socially embedded knowledge and experience. It provides an account of how interpretations of risk in …
Anthropology and Risk
Av Asa Boholm
Häftad, 2015
754 kr
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Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this book addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by culturally informed and socially embedded knowledge and experience. It provides an account of how interpretations of risk in …
Protecting Seniors Against Environmental Disasters
From Hazards and Vulnerability to Prevention and Resilience
Inbunden, 2014
2525 kr
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The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history. They should number about 90 million by mid-century, more than doubling their current size. The massive increase in seniors and relative decline of those of working age in the US is mirrored …
Transboundary Risk Governance
Av Rolf Lidskog, Linda Soneryd m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
743 kr
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Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution, is one of the most pressing problems facing society . This book focuses on a set of key questions relating to environmental regulation: How are activities regulated in a …
Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk
Imagining the Future
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
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This book answers the need for a contextual, long-term and interpretative analysis of risk from original sources. Risk has historically been a way of imagining what could happen in the future based on expert theories and predictions. This book explores this notion of "managing the future" by …
Risk and Responsibilisation in Public Communication
The Global Challenges of COVID-19 and Climate Change
Inbunden, 2023
2600 kr
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This book explores the connections between risk and responsibilisation in official communication to the public about the global risks of the pandemic and climate change.Our media spheres in the 2020s have been saturated with information about what we should or should not be doing to meet the …
Risk and Responsibilisation in Public Communication
The Global Challenges of COVID-19 and Climate Change
Häftad, 2025
671 kr
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This book explores the connections between risk and responsibilisation in official communication to the public about the global risks of the pandemic and climate change.Our media spheres in the 2020s have been saturated with information about what we should or should not be doing to meet the …
Theory of Uncertainty
Perspectives in Philosophy, Social Sciences, and Risk Research
Inbunden, 2024
2635 kr
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Using sources from classical to modern that broach the phenomenon of uncertainty and its relation to risk, this book creates a novel approach to the recognized but theoretically often unattended issue of uncertainty.Andreas Klinke develops a new, general theory of uncertainty that provides a …
Theory of Uncertainty
Perspectives in Philosophy, Social Sciences, and Risk Research
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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Using sources from classical to modern that broach the phenomenon of uncertainty and its relation to risk, this book creates a novel approach to the recognized but theoretically often unattended issue of uncertainty.Andreas Klinke develops a new, general theory of uncertainty that provides a …
Global Environmental Risk
Av Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson
E-bok, 2013
956 kr
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Despite international initiatives such as the Earth Summit in 1992 and ongoing efforts to implement the Kyoto Protocol, human activities continue to register a destructive toll on the planetary environment. At root, research on global environmental risk seeks new pathways for reversing …
Global Environmental Risk
Av Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson
E-bok, 2013
956 kr
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Despite international initiatives such as the Earth Summit in 1992 and ongoing efforts to implement the Kyoto Protocol, human activities continue to register a destructive toll on the planetary environment. At root, research on global environmental risk seeks new pathways for reversing …
Trust in Cooperative Risk Management
Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind
Av Timothy C. Earle, Michael Siegrist m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
520 kr
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Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In this book the world?s leading risk researchers explore all aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. Drawing on a wide …
Ethics of Technological Risk
Av Lotte Asveld, Sabine Roeser
Häftad, 2014
754 kr
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'A comprehensive and important collection that includes essays by some of the leading figures in the field. ...Essential reading for anyone interested in risk assessment.' Professor Kristin Shrader-Frechette, University of Notre Dame'The editors are to be congratulated for bringing together a …
Siting Noxious Facilities
Integrating Location Economics and Risk Analysis to Protect Environmental Health and Investments
Inbunden, 2018
2600 kr
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Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management facilities. It proposes a framework that integrates economic location analysis and risk analysis, emphasizing the reduction of uncertainty. This book begins by defining …
Explaining Risk Analysis
Protecting health and the environment
Inbunden, 2016
2600 kr
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Risk analysis is not a narrowly defined set of applications. Rather, it is widely used to assess and manage a plethora of hazards that threaten dire implications. However, too few people actually understand what risk analysis can help us accomplish and, even among experts, knowledge is often …
Explaining Risk Analysis
Protecting health and the environment
Häftad, 2016
851 kr
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Risk analysis is not a narrowly defined set of applications. Rather, it is widely used to assess and manage a plethora of hazards that threaten dire implications. However, too few people actually understand what risk analysis can help us accomplish and, even among experts, knowledge is often …
Social Trust and the Management of Risk
Av George Cvetkovich, Ragnar E. Lofstedt
Inbunden, 2016
2600 kr
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Social trust is a crucial issue to many aspects of modern society. Policy makers continually aspire to winning it and corporations frequently run the risk of losing it. The 'trust deficit' raises vital questions and problems to which until recently there have been few answers or solutions.Experts …
Risk, Media and Stigma
Understanding Public Challenges to Modern Science and Technology
Av Paul Slovic, James Flynn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2525 kr
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The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of technologies and aversion to certain products and substances. Amplified by the pervasive power of the media, public concern about health and ecological risks can have enormous …
Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society
Examples from Emerging Technologies, Public Health and Environment
Inbunden, 2018
2525 kr
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Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers. Human beings have always had to deal with dangers, but contemporary societies conceptualise these dangers as risks, indicating that they are to some extent …
Protecting Seniors Against Environmental Disasters
From Hazards and Vulnerability to Prevention and Resilience
Häftad, 2016
754 kr
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The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history. They should number about 90 million by mid-century, more than doubling their current size. The massive increase in seniors and relative decline of those of working age in the US is mirrored …
